UZBEK IDIOMS DESCRIBING A PERSON’S CHARACTER
Keywords:
phraseological units, person’s character, emotive evaluative connotations, positive and negative evaluation, Uzbek language, semantic analysisAbstract
The topic of this article is the study of Uzbek idioms that express character. It has been thoroughly analyzed how idioms expressing a person’s character attributes use emotive evaluation. The study employed Uzbek idioms as its source material. In this research, we examined the semantic interpretations of idioms that describe a person’s character.
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